I think there's a difference between someone wanting expensive things, and someone prepared to put off earning money for another 3 or 4 years in order to become really good and useful at something which might be vital, and that isn't paid well enough to support the training expenses.
Bankers almost always get bonuses. Academics rarely. Either we should subsidise them as a society, recognising the advantages they bring; or when you turn up, for example, for your medical treatment, the academics concerned have a right to beggar you and your descendants to pay for their discoveries: ie, set the bar as high as they like, with no regulation. Cure for your cancer, sir? That'll be your house, car, all of your luxuries, and the rest of your life's indentured servitude. But you'll be alive and so cannot complain.
Or perhaps some synthesis of those positions. Where do you draw the line? Only at medical research?
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Date: 2009-11-18 04:17 pm (UTC)Bankers almost always get bonuses. Academics rarely. Either we should subsidise them as a society, recognising the advantages they bring; or when you turn up, for example, for your medical treatment, the academics concerned have a right to beggar you and your descendants to pay for their discoveries: ie, set the bar as high as they like, with no regulation. Cure for your cancer, sir? That'll be your house, car, all of your luxuries, and the rest of your life's indentured servitude. But you'll be alive and so cannot complain.
Or perhaps some synthesis of those positions. Where do you draw the line? Only at medical research?